What is "palmyrene"

Usage examples of "palmyrene".

Adathus, the Palmyrene, leaned over and picked two perfect grapes from the remains of the bunch.

As the Palmyrene had expected, both were calm and possessed of a tremendous confidence.

The sole daughter of the house of Septimus Palmyrene is either a prize above all others or the victor who takes the prize herself.

The Palmyrene girl wound her way down the far side, far enough to escape the light leaking from the camp, but not so far as to be beyond sight of the top of the tower.

The Palmyrene and Nabatean heavy cavalry was trotting out in oblong formations, five and six men deep, their lances raised like a forest of steel reeds.

The black men, the Blem-menye who served Zenobia, had also advanced before the line of the Palmyrene army, and now the air between the two hosts was briefly marked by the sparkle of arrows in flight.

They turned and rode back along the length of the Palmyrene line at a slower pace.

Along the center of the line, the Persian archers began to fire over the line of Palmyrene slingers, ranging for the blocks of infantry behind them.

Palmyrene left wing, where Mohammad and his horse archers had been dashing toward the Persians, firing a black cloud of arrows and then swerving away in fine style, the Palmyrene knights had ridden up at last and had dispersed into a line nine ranks deep.

The Palmyrene right wing had swept down the hill with a combined force of Nabatean infantry and her archers and slingers.

Many of the red-armored men turned to flee at the sight of the Boar, and the entire Palmyrene advance suddenly stalled.

A heavy crash, like a thousand cast-iron pots thrown into a gravel pit, echoed out of the tan clouds, and then, suddenly, the ground to the west of the road was filled with Palmyrene horsemen, knights and lancers alike, in flight.

There was nothing between the riders in black and the unprotected rear of the Palmyrene army.

On the other side of the Palmyrene boy, one of the Gaulish wizards was almost grinning, blowing frosty breath up into the air.

While she ordered food he introduced his friends: the tall gloomy one was Nils Lindstrom of the Garden Aeroplane Trap, and the beautiful Arab lady with the laugh was Yasmina Rashid of the Palmyrene privateer Zainab.